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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Uranus/Neptune Natal Aspects - New Religions, Expansion of Consciousness, Mass Entrancements, and Past Lives



(The greatest majority of this comes from Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas, Ph.D.  I’ve condensed it to make it easier to read and added a few more dates.)

If you were born from roughly 1951 to 1958 or from 1992 to 1996, then you have a hard aspect between Uranus and Neptune in your chart. You may be drawn to any of the following and you may have experienced other lifetimes in any of the past Uranus/Neptune historical time periods below.

On one level Uranus/Neptune brings non-conformist ideas and activities (Uranus) that combine with spirituality (Neptune).

These include:
new religions
new philosophical movements
widespread spiritual awakenings
an interest in life after death
mystical spirituality
a collective belief that a different world will take the place of this one
spiritually - inspired political activism
 
Historical Uranus/Neptune time periods include:

590 - 550 B.C.E.         The birth of Taoism in China
                                    The time of the Oracle of Delphi in Greece
                                    The major prophets of Judaism; the Hebrew scriptures composed
                                    The time of Zoraster in Persia
                                    The age of Buddha in India
                                    The time of Pythagoras and the Greek philosophers
402 - 397 B.C.E          The time of Socrates
16 - 32     B.C.E          The time of Jesus and his original spiritual teachings
612 - 630     C.E          The founding of Islam by Mohammed
1214 -1230  C.E.         The spread of Cathar Gnostic-Christian beliefs in southern France
The time of St. Francis of Assisi
1301-1314   C.E.         Mystical fervor in Europe - Dante; Meister Eckhart in Germany;
                                    the Zohar composed and the teaching of the Kabbalah in Spain;
1385            C.E.         The King James version of Bible printed in England
1568                            John Knox’s Presbyterian movement in Scotland
                                    The teaching of the Kabbalah in Jerusalem
1643 - 1654                 The Quakers founded
The Puritan Revolution and civil war in England - (coincided with Uranus/Pluto)
1728 - 1740                 Methodism founded by John Wesley in England
The first ‘Great Awakening” in the American colonies with its intention to ‘create a new Israel in America

1824 - 1829                 Mormonism founded
                                    The Ba’hai faith founded
                                    Christian Science founded
The second ‘Great Awakening’ - camp revivals, evangelism carried out by Baptist and Methodist lay preachers
Calvinism displaced by personal salvation and free will in Christianity

1906 - 1918                 The rise of Spiritualism with its emphasis on life after  death after the deaths of millions in World War I
                                    Rudolf Steiner, who joined Christianity and Buddhism
Yogananda and Krishnamurti in India
Pentecostalism founded                        
                                   
On a different level, hard aspects between Uranus and Neptune also bring technological innovation (Uranus) combined with imagination and changes in consciousness (Neptune).

These include:
heightened creativity
artistic and scientific innovations
transpersonal psychology
the search for a higher reality
Utopian social visions
esoteric philosophy
a blurring between fantasy and reality
periods of spiritual confusion and disorientation
the susceptibility of the public to mass entrancements

Time periods include:

300 B.C.E.                   Plato composes The Republic

1480 - 1486                 The Renaissance in Italy, including the works of Leonardo DaVinci

1820 - 1829                 Romanticism in Europe - the poetry of Keats and Shelley;
Beethoven’s - “Ode to Joy” in classical music
                                    Carl Jung’s spiritual interpretation of dreams
                                    Esoteric philosophy emerged - William James, Alfred North Whitehead
                                    The first photographs invented
                                    Transcendentalism in Europe and America
                                    The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt
                                    The founding of Egyptology      
           
1906 - 1918                 Ghandi joined spirituality and activism in India
                                    Motion pictures invented and began to influence the public mind
                                    The use of hypnotism  
The increased use of absinthe, laudanum by the public

1951 - 1958                 The use of mind-altering psychedelic drugs to achieve spiritual enlightenment or to experience a different reality
                                    The dramatic increase in alcoholism after World War II
                                    The ‘Beat’ movement and rise of the Beatniks
                                    The Zen movement
                                    The international 'revivals' of Billy Graham, evangelist
                                   
1992 - 1994                 The development of the Internet and social media speeds up flow of information
                                    The interconnectedness of global communities
The loss of distinct cultural traditions, languages, religions, and communities through mass media, globalization, and immigration
The growth of Christianity - Pentecostal, evangelical, charismatic, and Holiness - through missionary work
The spread of Mormonism
The rise of Korean mega-churches
The reassertion of ‘Biblical values’ combined with nationalism in America
Cult movements like Heavens’ Gate, the Branch Davidians, etc.
Evangelical Christian music - Christian rock, ‘praise and worship’ music
Mass prayer vigils

A renewed interest in past lives, the near-death experience, life after death, angels, divination, the Tarot, astrology, and numerology
                                    A renewed interest in the West in Rumi
                                    A renewed interest in the West in Buddhism
                                    An interest in shamanism of indigenous cultures
                                    A renewed interest in Gnosticism
                                    Films having to do with myth, legend, and otherworldly themes

The prevalence of addictions to drugs, alcohol, consumerism, video games, the Internet, and social media
Widespread fascination and addiction to ‘image’ as created by mass media
The saturation of consciousness by technologically produced hyper-stimulating images on TV and the Internet
Free access to music, films, and images from the Web - all of which can be revised and inter-spliced to create another reality
Computer hacking
                                    Public use of cell phones which subject others to one’s own reality
                                    The extensive marketing of new prescription drugs by the media

















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